ActionSA believes South Africa’s continued deteriorating crime statistics highlight how the country is further transforming into a gangster state, and the need for urgent policy and leadership reform to turn the situation around.

ActionSA will write to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to investigate the circumstances that led to newborn babies at Mahikeng Provincial Hospital in the North-West being placed in cardboard boxes instead of incubators or cribs.

ActionSA welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appointment of Madam Justice Mahube Betty Molemela as President of the Supreme Court of Appeal and believes her appointment will bring further strong leadership to the country’s judiciary. 

ActionSA has written to Financial Sector Conduct Authority (“FSCA”) Commissioner, Unathi Kamlana, to request clarity on the conflicting stories relating to Thabo Bester and his bank account that seems to have been opened and operational despite only obtaining a valid Identity Document (ID) recently.

ActionSA in the Western Cape has lodged complaints with the South African Human Rights Commission on behalf of a group of Khayelitsha foster mothers against the various government departments for the way in which their actions and inactions compromise foster children in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.

ActionSA rejects the recommendation made by eThekwini Municipality to host city official’s client meetings at The Pencil Club, an elite members-only club located in uMhlanga, which will cost eThekwini ratepayer R16 000 per day, excluding refreshments.

ActionSA has lodged complaints against the City of Tshwane and its former Executive Mayor, Randall Williams, with the Public Protector and South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) for their failure to act on the Rooiwal Wastewater Treatment Plant (RWTP) which may have led to the current cholera outbreak.

ActionSA welcomes the resignation of Babalwa Ngonyama, the Chair of the UCT Council, in light of the damning recommendations made in the interim report by the Independent Panel of Investigation into UCT Governance, which has concluded that the Council must act with urgency to remove the Chair of Council.

ActionSA will write to the Executive Mayor of Tshwane, Cllr Cilliers Brink, requesting that he take the families of the 12 deceased, the people of Hammanskraal and the Greater Tshwane region into is confidence and provide feedback and a way forward to ensure that on other residents do not get sick.

As part of our ongoing policy engagement process, ActionSA will this week engage with South Africans on what needs to be done to end the country’s energy crisis.

ActionSA regards it necessary to provide clarification on the matter of The Outsider – the biography authored by Prince Mashele about Herman Mashaba’s life and political experience. Such a clarification was only possible this morning following the return late last night of Mashaba from an international trip with his family.

On the 26th of April 2023, ActionSA, led by President Herman Mashaba and myself, marched to the Office of the Premier of the Eastern Cape to deliver a memorandum which highlighted the sordid state of the province.

ActionSA welcomes City of Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink’s focus to address the adverse findings of the Auditor-General (A-G) into the city’s finances during his maiden State of The Capital Address (SoCA).

ActionSA will write to City of Ekurhuleni Mayor, Sivuyile Ngodwana, to urgently intervene in the ongoing electricity outages in Tembisa where ongoing civil unrest by the community has seen the only remaining customer care centre being burnt down last week.

ActionSA welcomes the call by the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA) for the formalisation and institutionalisation of the initiation process.